Here's how you will spy on the trading footprints left by Wall Street Insiders

Volume Signifies Key Trading Levels

This is the exact screen shot of the Option Scanner before I made 1,300% return, which you can read more about in the next section.

The scanner produces these results, every day, in an instant and shows you what option contracts have had the most significant volumes trading vs their open interest. If this happens on a stock before an earnings announcement, it means somebody is placing a HUGE bet on the outcome of the earnings release.

Now, why would 18,607 contracts trade through a single option contract before a stock reports its earnings numbers?

This trade represents $55,821,000 worth of stock in one strike alone in a single day. These bets aren't made by Mom and Dad investors like you and me; they are institutions with huge money at stake and trading from information unavailable to the retail traders.

But you can observe the footprints they leave with this powerful trading tool.

Now, I also took a screen shot of the option chain as I entered the trade. Check out the volumes of the other strikes here....almost NOTHING.

Yet this one strike price, $30, trades over 18,000 times two days before the stock releases earnings.

I'm not saying you are guaranteed to make money like this every time, in fact, you won't make money every time. But wouldn't you agree that this is a superb opportunity to take a further look into?

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I have personally purchased and tested the product and will continue to make real money trades based on the scan results. And for $197 it is well worth it.

It does, however, allow you to scan all expiration weeks for stocks, ETFs and indices. By the looks of option sonar it only looks at "this week" and "LEAPS" when you click Browse By Expiry. And I think it only looks at equities.

Also, it does't look like option sonar allows users to customise the criteria that determines how unusual the volume spikes are. For example, you can configure the Option Scanner mentioned here to only show you options that have traded more than 2,000 lots while having at least 1,000 in open interest. Without these filters, a scan returns too many contracts to look at.

Also, the Option Scanner also allows you to filter and also sort by implied volatility. So, if a strike has a a lot of volume traded it can often pump up the price of the option, which increases the implied volatility. When buying options it is best to buy when implied volatility is low, so this scanner pulls out the high volume option trades while also letting you know if those also have low volatility.

Another thing is that the Option Scanner mentioned here allows you to build custom ticker lists so you can only scan those stocks that you're interested in. Or, more useful is actually removing those symbols that already trade a lot of options during any normal day, which makes identifying unusual volume trades more difficult; volume spikes are more interesting on obscure, or less well known stocks where perhaps there is an earnings announcement approaching.

JaredJune 23rd, 2017 at 12:02am

How do you guys compare to www.optionsonar.com? They seem to offer text message alerts for unusual option activity that matches your criteria. Does your scanner provide this?

PeterJuly 27th, 2016 at 3:22am

Hi Raja,

Yes, currently it is only supported for the USA market due to the ease of availability of option market data.

Raja ShuklaJuly 26th, 2016 at 8:06am

As i understand from the description that this is valid only for USA market!If i want to use this for the indian market , what modification i have to do ?